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🦋 On A Starry Starry Night Vincent Took His Own Life

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peterbllee
Mar 14, 2022 8:21 PM

Starry  Starry  Night is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

The paintings shown with the lyrics of the songs were paintings by Vincent.

Vincent committed suicide at the age of 37. His last words were "The sadness never ends"

The singer says that the Vincent in the song,"Starry Starry Night" was a beautiful person.

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Unfortunately for Vincent, the society he lived in did not appreciate  him. He sold only 1 painting during his lifetime. It was only after his death that he became famous.

Those around Vincent did not understand him and would not listen or understand what he tried to tell them.

Like the bloody rose that lay crushed on the snow in the song, Vincent's heart💔 was crushed by the torment he suffered.

In despair, he took his own life.  

See why people contemplate suicide in

Awareness of what makes people contemplate suicide enables us to reach out to them. In rare cases, a person may want to commit suicide to punish or get revenge by inflicting guilt on another. That person is so full of hurt, anger and bitterness that he cannot think clearly. He wants to do something irreversible so that the person being punished cannot do anything to reverse the suicide and will have to permanently suffer guilt, remorse or fear (if he believes in ghosts that can come to take revenge). The purpose of such motivation will fail where the anger and bitterness is mutual and not one sided. The person being punished welcomes the suicide. Demons who deceived the person into committing suicide will get to gloat over him eg. You did what he wants or you saved him from getting into trouble for murdering you. Ha.Ha.Ha. While we are on the thread of demons, there are cases of demonic deception. There are also cases of mass suicide as in cults.A common reason for contemplating suicide is to seek a solution or way out Examples of this include : - a person with so much debt that it is impossible to pay - enable beneficiary of insurance policy to make claim. A needed warning here is that insurance policies often include exclusion clauses so that claims cannot be made for suicide or claims are invalid if suicide is within 3 years of inception or reinstatement - a person who is cornered and does not want to be caught The most common reason for suicide is as an end of pain. Substance abuse and alcohol can only temporarily hide pain. Once the effect of these wear out,the pain return. For the person contemplating suicide, death is a permanent end of having to face pain. What he fails to see is the pain and difficulties he cause to those left behind.We can help those who are contemplating suicide by helping them to deal with pain rather than seeking an end of enduring pain. Perhaps we are part of his pain and it is within our ability to reduce his pain by changing what we do.I have not committed suicide. Obviously. Otherwise I would not be here writing to you. But I have engaged in risky behaviour that could have ended in death. What I did not realize at that time is what if the result of my risky behaviour is not death but becoming permanently incapacitated such loosing 2 legs or 2 arms? Instead of getting an end to pain, life would have become worse. I thank God that my memory loss following an accident was not total or permanent. It has improved substantially.
bbs.marketWhy people contemplate suicide?Awareness of what makes people contemplate suicide enables us to reach out to them. In rare cases, a person may want to commit suicide to punish or get revenge by inflicting guilt on another. That person is so full of hurt, anger and bitterness that he cannot think clearly. He wants to do something irreversible so that the person being punished cannot do anything to reverse the suicide and will have to permanently suffer guilt, remorse or fear (if he believes in ghosts that can come to take revenge). The purpose of such motivation will fail where the anger and bitterness is mutual and not one sided. The person being punished welcomes the suicide. Demons who deceived the person into committing suicide will get to gloat over him eg. You did what he wants or you saved him from getting into trouble for murdering you. Ha.Ha.Ha. While we are on the thread of demons, there are cases of demonic deception. There are also cases of mass suicide as in cults.A common reason for contemplating suicide is to seek a solution or way out Examples of this include : - a person with so much debt that it is impossible to pay - enable beneficiary of insurance policy to make claim. A needed warning here is that insurance policies often include exclusion clauses so that claims cannot be made for suicide or claims are invalid if suicide is within 3 years of inception or reinstatement - a person who is cornered and does not want to be caught The most common reason for suicide is as an end of pain. Substance abuse and alcohol can only temporarily hide pain. Once the effect of these wear out,the pain return. For the person contemplating suicide, death is a permanent end of having to face pain. What he fails to see is the pain and difficulties he cause to those left behind.We can help those who are contemplating suicide by helping them to deal with pain rather than seeking an end of enduring pain. Perhaps we are part of his pain and it is within our ability to reduce his pain by changing what we do.I have not committed suicide. Obviously. Otherwise I would not be here writing to you. But I have engaged in risky behaviour that could have ended in death. What I did not realize at that time is what if the result of my risky behaviour is not death but becoming permanently incapacitated such loosing 2 legs or 2 arms? Instead of getting an end to pain, life would have become worse. I thank God that my memory loss following an accident was not total or permanent. It has improved substantially.

My husband Eric is like Vincent. He is a beautiful person that I and those around him find hard to understand.

Eric has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). He is insecure and fear being abandoned. He often react to his fear with anger and has suicidal tendencies.

These characteristics of a person with BPD make Eric difficult to get along with and also his work performance.

I did not know that Eric has BPD and like the woman who failed to understand Vincent, did not understand Eric.

He likes poetry and tried to use it to let me understand him. I refused to read what he wrote and do not pay attention to what he tried to say.

Both Eric and I did not understand one another. We became disappointed with each other. The disappointment grew into bitterness and anger.

This caused our relationship to go down the drain. We shout and quarreled 💥🔥⚡ everyday.

We stayed in seperate rooms. Being an insecure person who feared abandonment, this made Eric feel even more rejected.

As someone with suicidal tendencies, Eric engaged in pre-suicidal activities. I was oblivious to all these.

A friend of ours helped us to understand each other and we mended our relationship before it was too late.

I would have felt so bad if Eric had done what Vincent did.

I would be tormented by guilt when I found out that I had driven him to take his life.

Eric and I can share happy memories and look forward to more of such moments 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 because we now understand one another and our relationship has been restored

God is so good to us and has brought a friend into our lives to help us.

Thank you Lord and thank you friend for helping us.

Can you guess who that friend is?

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